Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Quotations
Music
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
